Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Chain Of Light” received the most votes in November’s Transglobal World Music Chart.
At turns heavy and hulkingly powerful, yet agile and pointedly precise, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s vocal not only embodies the tradition of the Sufi qawwali but it is the emotive essence of singing itself. Descended from a 600-year-old lineage of qawwali singers, Nusrat’s voice has been singularly responsible for spreading the devotional music of Sufism to the world, ever since he became the leader of his family’s musical group in 1971. Originating in 10th Century Iran, qawwali is the music of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam. Characterised by states of musical ecstasy and sophistication, qawwali singers are the mouthpiece of divine power, tasked with capturing the audience’s attention and heightening their consciousness to receive a spiritual message. “Chain of Light” is an album of previously unheard recordings of the singer and his qawwal party made at Real World Studios in 1990, whilst he was at the height of his vocal capabilities. Carefully restored from the original analogue tapes, this “lost album”.
Top albums November 2024:
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party · Chain of Light · Real World [3]
- Buzz’ Ayaz · Buzz’ Ayaz · Glitterbeat [1]
- El Khat · Mute · Glitterbeat [5]
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 · Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head) · Record Kicks [8]
- Mari Boine · Alva · By Norse Music [-]
- Afro Celt Sound System · Ova · Six Degrees [-]
- Ayom · Sa.Li.Va · Ayom / Believe [14]
- Justin Adams & Mauro Durante · Sweet Release · Ponderosa Music [-]
- Ruşan Filiztek · Exils · Accords Croisés [6]
- Lo’Jo · Feuilles Fauves · Yotanka / Integral [-]
- Vigüela · We · Mapamundi Musica [7]
- África Negra · Antologia Vol. 2 · Les Disques Bongo Joe [15]
- Jyotsna Srikanth · Carnatic Nomad · Naxos World [13]
- Meridian Brothers · Mi Latinoamérica Sufre · Les Disques Bongo Joe [9]
- Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet · Details · Contre Jour / Zig Zag World [12]
- Sinimuso · Nouskaa Sisaret · Sinimuso [-]
- The Zawose Queens · Maisha · Real World [4]
- Seckou Keita · Homeland (Chapter 1) · Hudson Records [-]
- K.O.G. · Don’t Take My Soul · Heavenly Sweetness [18]
- V.A. · Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito para el Mundo 1965-1980 · Analog Africa [-]
- Lucibela · Moda Antiga · Lusafrica [-]
- Jaune Toujours · Vertigo · Choux de Bruxelles [-]
- Manu Chao · Viva Tu · Because Music [-]
- Arooj Aftab · Night Reign · Verve [10]
- Choduraa Tumat · Yrlyg Bulak / Singing River · Pan [-]
- Süperstar Orkestar · Guča Revisited · Hajde [22]
- Ahmed Moneka · Kanzafula: Afro-Iraqi Sufi Soul · LulaWorld [31]
- Carmen Souza · Port’inglês · Galileo Music Communication [-]
- Lemon Bucket Orkestra · Cuckoo · Lemon Bucket Orkestra [19]
- V.A. · Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia · Ostinato [27]
- Los Cumbia Stars · La Cumbia Une a Latinoamérica · Discos Fuentes [11]
- Bhutan Balladeers · Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars · Glitterbeat [36]
- Dal:um · Coexistence · tak:til / Glitterbeat [-]
- Bassekou Kouyate & Amy Sacko · Djudjon, l’Oiseau de Garana · One World [2]
- Ánnámáret · Bálvvosbáiki · Uksi Productions [33]
- Carla Pires · VaiVem · Ocarina Music [20]
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin · Symbiont · Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [-]
- Taikuh Jikang · Tori / Birds · microAction [34]
- The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys · Wanderers Like Me · Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [30]
- Soba · Fiman · MDC [25]
NMR (photo: press Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
Founder members and administrators Transglobal World Music Chart:
Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES)
Current active members:
Alexis Herrería (MX), Rosângela Britto (BR), Ula Nowak (PL), Liana Cisneros (PE), Banning Eyre (US), Magda Tejchma (PL), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN/US), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (BE), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Chen Hanzi (CN), Takuya “Salam” Unagami (JP), Janaína Ávila (BR), Roger Short (UK), Ankur Malhotra (IN)
More at: https://www.transglobalwmc.com/
